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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will host a Town Hall meeting on the possible expansion of the protections of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument in the south-central Pacific Ocean. The Town Hall discussion will be held on August 11 at the Ala Moana Hotel, Carnation Room, 410 Atkinson Drive Honolulu, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. If you are unable to attend the Town Hall meeting and would like to comment, please send your comments to PRI@noaa.gov no later than August 15.

In September 2014 the Obama administration announced the creation of the largest marine reserve in the world by expanding an existing monument around U.S.-controlled islands and atolls in the central Pacific.

Vast areas of the monument are Open Ocean, often thought of as aquatic deserts; they are in fact brimming with life.UnderH20 presents a glimpse at some of the thousands of species of other-worldly plants and animals found in the ocean’s water column.

Colonizing the islands was a harrowing experience that claimed the lives of three young men: Carl Kahalewai who died of appendicitis in 1938, and Joseph Keliihananui and Richard “Dickey” Whaley who were killed during an attack on the island on December 8, 1941.